In 2014, more than 233,000 Connecticut residents -- 26 percent of whom live in New Haven County -- will be eligible for premium tax credits to help them pay for health insurance purchased from the state's health insurance exchange, according to a report released Tuesday.

The report, titled "Help is at Hand: New Health Insurance Tax Credits in Connecticut," is among a dozen looking at eligibility by state released so far by Families USA, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that describes itself as "dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans."

Families USA commissioned The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm in Falls Church, Va., to use its "Health Benefits Simulation Model" to estimate how many people across the country could benefit from the new tax credits, or subsidies, in 2014. It released its first report March 26 on eligibility in Florida, and followed that with reports on Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Tuesday, in addition to Connecticut, it released reports on Louisiana, Mississippi, New York and Tennessee.

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